New rolls let you choose
the music for your player piano and buy it when you want it, not just
make do with what turns up. New rolls don't have the damage and decay
that old rolls suffer from. Buy your new rolls here!

Below are the catalogues of
rolls for standard 88-note
player pianos and automatic Duo-Art
instruments. Not sure what rolls your player piano can
use? Have a look at the page on compatibility.
If you know what you want, you can order
directly.

Duo-Art
rolls

These
are special rolls needed to operate Duo-Art pianos that automatically
reproduce the performance of the pianist. The copies here are exact
replicas of original
rolls, containing each and every punch in the original roll, all in the
right place and of the right size, so the new rolls perform exactly the
same as the original rolls. This
is quite unlike the majority of roll copies, where the new perforations
only approximate the originals, to the detriment of the music. For the
specification of these new rolls, see The
Anatomy of a
Piano Roll.

Most
player pianos use 88-note rolls, with the operator (or 'Pianolist')
adding all timing and expression. Some instruments have an extra
accenting mechanism to highlight certain notes, and the rolls here have
accenting when this is appropriate. They will play perfectly on any
standard 88-note player piano. The
catalogue has a mixture of replica and new rolls, including titles
newly arranged by Adam Ramet to play in a way that only the player
piano can!

Special
recut orders

I can only offer a fairly limited list of rolls
off-the-shelf, but there are huge numbers of other rolls that could be
recut. Ask for the titles you want:
you may well not have to find an original because there are libraries
of electronic scans that can be perforated to order! Anything
obtainable can be cut for bulk purchase, where the buyer takes the
entire perforator run of four copies. I don't
copy rolls less than 50 years old, or older recuts.

Custom-cut
new rolls

I
can cut new rolls from MIDI files, as long as the MIDI file is provided
in a form ready for cutting - I can check a file to assess how suitable
it is for making into a roll. New rolls are supplied only in
batches of four copies; it's not practical to supply single rolls or
proof rolls,
although I can provide examples of how the MIDI will sound once it's
been cut into a roll. I
cannot create MIDI files for you, so if there is
something you want
you'll have to find somebody to create it for you, and I'll then
happily cut it for you.

What's new?

August 2016 - New Duo-Art recut

Liszt's
arrangement of Wagner's Tannhauser Overture, played by Ignaz Friedman.
Recorded as a single performance, originally this was issued
in two parts (rolls 6616A and 6616 B) with a very awkward ending
to part A, this version reconstructs the complete performance on
one very long roll (113 feet). It may not fit in the spoolboxes
of all instruments.

May 2016 - New 88-note roll

Eric
Satie's 3 Gymnopoidies. A brand-new roll, fully themed to bring out the
famous melody line. Although very popular these days, this music has
little or no presence on original-era rolls.

Replica Duo-Art rolls
- list updated April 2016

Bulk orders: take
20% off the listed prices if you order 10 or more rolls, or 10% off for
more than 5 rolls.

Title

Price
(£)

Titles marked LAST
ORDERS will not be replaced when stocks run out, so order
now!

Duo-Art
Test Roll

Duo-Art
test roll, with description sheet. A modification of the standard
British roll, with the zero-setting section extended to cover a wider
range of notes. Very similar to the American "test roll number 3" but
without musical examples.

Carroll calls the tunes –
transcription of Carroll Gibbons' 1937 record (Can I have the next
romance with you, Everything's in rhythm with my heart, I'm in a
dancing mood, There isn't any limit to my love)

13

Ganz –
Allons Vite (grand galop de concert)

11

Shostakovich – Festive
Overture

13

Shostakovich
– Waltz
No 2 from Suite for variety orchestra.

11

Gershwin/Grainger
–
Love walked In & The Man I Love. Concert transcriptions by
Percy Grainger, interpreted for the pianola by Sid O'Connell. Themed

13

Lothar Perl –
American Variations on a theme of Paganini.
Created by Sid O’Connell. ThemedLAST
ORDERS

13

New Pianola Arrangements by Adam Ramet

Brand new 88-note arrangements
specially designed to make the most of your player piano!

Star Wars
"Main Title" (Williams) –
a rendering of the entire orchestral opening on the pianola

13

Carousel Waltz (Richard Rogers) – from the film

13

Slap
that Bass (Gershwin) – as
danced by Fred Astaire in Follow
the Fleet

11

Let's Misbehave (Cole Porter) – dropped from
"Paris" before its New York opening

11

Church mouse on a spree (Froeba) – 1936
jazzy novelty

11

Nickel in the slot (Confrey)

11

Alexander's Ragtime Band (Berlin)

11

King Chanticleer (Nat D. Ayer)

11

Troublesome Ivories (Eubie
Blake)

11

Classic
ragtime

Going to Pieces (Karl
Kapper) –
a rag / onestep from 1916

11

The Entertainer (Scott
Joplin)

11

Leola (Scott Joplin)

11

Eugenia (Scott Joplin)

11

Rose Leaf
Rag (Scott Joplin)

11

Solace (Scott Joplin)

11

Jelly Roll Morton transcriptions by
Mike Meddings

Mike
Meddings made these rolls for his own concerts, transcribing Morton's
78s to recreate every nuance of phrasing and timing. Thanks to Mike,
these are now being offered for sale again.

88-note
rolls

Finger Buster– transcribed from Jazz Man 12, recorded Dec
1938

11

Frog-I-More
Rag –
transcribed from Rialto534, recorded April/May 1924

11

Ordering information

Ordering
is simple: just email the list of the rolls you want, your details
including delivery addess, whether you want fast (expensive) or
economical (slower) delivery, and if you want additional postal
insurance. You will be sent a payment request for the total, no payment
is needed with the order.

All
prices are in UK pounds sterling. There are discounts for
larger orders: 10% for 5 to 9
rolls, 20% for 10 or more rolls. Alternatively, order a
bespoke perforator batch of any title (4 rolls) and deduct 20% for that
particular title.

All
orders are posted from the UK, or may be picked up from Wokingham. Postage
is charged at cost, packing is free. Exact
postage costs will be confirmed when the packed weight of your order is
known and a postal service chosen –
I use Royal Mail or courier services whichever is more economic, on a
case-by-case basis. Payment only by cash on collection, bank
transfer, cheque (Pounds Sterling, drawn on a UK bank), or
PayPal
for non-UK buyers only.